Cocos
2D has been fast emerging as a lucrative career option for those who take keen
interest in developing two dimensional games and interactive applications for
electronic platforms such as PC’s, smartphones, tablets and much more.
Introduced
to the world in 2008, it is an open source application development framework
and provides great support and facilities to those looking for amazing
application development experience and desirable results with maximum fluency.
It can also be used by the Cocos 2D developers to develop software
demos, product demos, device demos and much more and has been time and again
used to develop graphics based applications for iOS.
The
latest version of this framework, cocos2d 0.5.5, was released on August 12,2012
and it comes packed with some very interesting and exciting features and also
presents various benefits over its counterparts such as Corona and Unity. These
features and advantages have been exhaustively discussed in the following
sections.
The
amazing and attractive features of Cocos 2D
Cocos
2D might not be as old as many of the existing frameworks but it has already
carved a special niche for itself thanks to its fast paced evolution and some
really unique and interesting features that aim at empowering the developers
and providing them with the options that can translate to admirable user
experience.
Cocos
2D provides easy flow control which helps developers switch between scenes
easily and provide a fluidic experience to the users. Many transition related
features are also embedded to ensure a stylish transition between scenes. To
make the games and applications highly interactive and attractive, some special
effects such as lens, twirl and waves can be used. The easy and fast sprites
provided by Cocos 2D can be easily controlled by actions such as scale, move
and rotate which can be composed by the developer.
Cocos
2D comes with special built-in classes which can be used to create customized
menus. Also its built-in python interpreter facilitates debugging operation and
makes it easy and convenient. To provide hardware acceleration, Cocos-2D is
Open GL based and it is also Pyglet based which means there is no need for
external dependencies. What’s more, the Cocos 2D framework comes with complete
and detailed documentation such as a guide, programming video tutorials, API
reference and few tests to make it all easy for the Cocos developers.
Major
advantages that Cocos 2D boasts of
The
biggest advantage of Cocos 2D is that it is extremely competent and efficiently
supports all major platforms and doesn’t offer compatibility related problems.
It is also very easy to grasp and use since it comes with detailed
documentation and has an active discussion forum where all Cocos 2D developers
excitedly share and discuss their experiences and discoveries. If any developer
faces any challenge, he/she can post about it on the forum and get help from
senior developers instantly.
Many
popular games and applications such as Binary Defence, IRobot, Flat Bot and
Tetrico have been developed using Cocos 2D and more and more game/app
developers are adopting this lovely framework to present to the world even more
interesting games, applications and demos.
